{"id":410,"date":"2004-08-23T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2004-08-23T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T06:52:58","slug":"lawyers-can-be-ok-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/lawyers-can-be-ok-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"lawyers can be OK, sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those religious readers of my blog (ha!), you all know that Hirschowitz Flionis Attorneys and Conveyances is the worst place in the entire world.  You are better off locking yourself in a room for 9 months, with a window just large enough for you to throw your money out of it, than you are dealing with Dunn Hirschowitz. He is the worst thing ever.<\/p>\n<p>However, the light at the end of the tunnel seems to have been right around the corner all along.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roylaw.co.za\/\">Roy Bregman<\/a> promises a free first consultation, where he&#8217;ll be &#8216;easy to talk to and sympathetic&#8217; and he goes on to &#8216;promise an honest and frank assessment of your case.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He gave us more than that.  Patient, honest and kind (what you don&#8217;t expect from a lawyer), while extremely knowledgeable; I trust him &#8211; both with our security, and our case.  If you need a lawyer in the Johannesburg area, I can&#8217;t stress enough how awful Dunn Hirschowitz of Hirschowitz Flionis Attorneys and Conveyances is (that one is for the search engines) and how great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roylaw.co.za\/\">Roy Bregman<\/a> of Bregman Mitchley Attorneys is.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a public service announcement ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those religious readers of my blog (ha!), you all know that Hirschowitz Flionis Attorneys and Conveyances is the worst place in the entire world. You are better off locking yourself in a room for 9 months, with a window just large enough for you to throw your money out of it, than you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-6C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1604,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/a-more-perfect-union\/","url_meta":{"origin":410,"position":0},"title":"A more perfect union (updated)","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 March 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My president: [youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU] And, I must also quote Andrew Sullivan's first response in full: Alas, I cannot give a more considered response right now as I have to get on the road. 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